On Friday (February 28), at Guildford Crown Court he was sentenced to a total of 20 months imprisonment for one count of sexual assault and one charge of breaching a suspended sentence, to run concurrently.

The court heard the sexual assault took place at a bus stop near the old BT building in Victoria Road, Horley, at 5.15pm on June 5 last year.

Prosecutor Hannah Duncan said the victim was waiting at the bus stop after finishing a music lesson after school and wanted to see her mother before she went home.

"At the bus stop this defendant was walking along, clearly drunk," Ms Duncan said. "He started trying to engage her with conversation.

"A bus pulled up and she jumped up, but the bus wasn't going past her house. So she had to sit back down.

"He had wondered away. Unfortunately for her, he then came back."

Ms Duncan said that Baboony walked up to the girl, took one of her hands and kissed it, before putting both of his hands on her shoulders and pulling her towards him to try and hug and kiss her.

"She pulled away and turned her face to the side and his lips touched her cheek," Ms Duncan said.

Ms Duncan said that the victim felt her skirt being flipped back and that a witness who drove past said they saw Baboony's hand touching the back of her skirt.

'Drunkenness is no excuse'

Two girls on the other side of the road saw the incident. "Such was their concern that they went over to see if she was alright and stayed with her," Ms Duncan said. "They took her back to where her mum worked."

Another member of the public who drove past stopped and asked if the victim was alright. They stayed at the scene to make sure Baboony did not leave until the police came and arrested him, the court heard.

Baboony also pleaded guilty to breaching a suspended sentence imposed on him at Lewes Crown Court in March last year for a bomb hoax.

Defending Baboony, Adam James, said all of his offending over the years had to do with alcohol.

"Where it seems to be activated is when he is in a period of unemployment," Mr James said. "On this occasion he had been at a job interview earlier in the day that was not successful. He had started to drink and by the time he was at the bus stop he was thoroughly intoxicated

"He accepts in interview effectively what has been said may well have been what happened. He cannot in all reality remember."

Mr James said there had been no offending of this nature before.

The court heard Baboony had been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder and was advised by a doctor to stop drinking.

Mr James said while this had not happened, Baboony had made "small progress" in reducing his consumption, and that abstinence would come.

Sentencing Baboony, Judge Christopher Critchlow said: "It was a thoroughly unpleasant incident for her and a frightening one.

"Drunkenness is no excuse in the view of this court.

"I bare in mind you did plead guilty, but that was not until January 27, the day of the trial, and seven months up until then the complainant in this case would no doubt be suffering anxiety of coming to an adult court and talking about it."

Judge Critchlow activated the 15 month suspended sentence, but reduced it to 10 months as it was not a similar offence, and sentenced him to ten months for the sexual assault to run consecutively. A £120 surcharge was also imposed.

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